iHome iA5 review: bedside iPhone social networking alarm clock

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iHome iA5 review: bedside iPhone social networking alarm clock

Walking through our local London Drugs, a western Canada retail phenomenon of a drugstore that is also a leader in photography, audio-visual and computer sales, i saw an unusual iPhone dock and could not resist slipping my iPhone into it to check out its sound. To my surprise, the iPhone responded by a notification popping up to inform me that the iPhone requires an app from the App Store and asking if I would like to download it. This is not your father’s clock radio; in fact, it isn’t a radio at all. Welcome to a hint of what the future has to offer in this social networking iphone alarm dock.

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Blue Snowball USB microphone simplifies high quality podcast recording

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Blue Snowball USB microphone simplifies high quality podcast recording

Although we don’t need a top of the line microphone to record for podcasting, using a poor quality microphone will tune out your listeners pretty quickly. One also needs to look for ease of set-up so you don’t need to turn on a mic pre-amp and have to have a fire-wire connection available, especially with Apple moving away from firewire on some of their laptops. This is where the Blue Snowball USB microphone can be the ideal choice.

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iVolume - the missing core iTunes feature

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Until a couple of months ago, I was frequently frustrated by a shortcoming on the iPod that effects anyone who shuffles their songs or uses any sort of playlist rather than just listening to a single album at a time - the fact that Apple's built-in 'sound check' feature really does quite a poor job of equalizing the volume from one song to the next.

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Thoughts on Apple 9/9/09 (non) Event

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Great to see Steve Jobs back at the helm; kind of thin looking but I'm not his mother. He now claims to have the liver of a mid 20 y.o. donor and says that he would not be alive had he not received the transplant. It turns out that the "It's only Rock and Roll" tag line for today's keynote was really just about iTunes improvements with minor hardware upgrades. No big surprises at all; minor surprise that iPod Nano got the camera instead of the iPod Touch.

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Kodak Zi6 since no iPhone 3GS yet

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​An AudioBoo article on using a Kodak Zi6 since I still don't have the new iPhone 3GS and wanted to keep the number of cameras I was taking with me on my camping trip. I had a Canon 50D with 2 lenses as well as a Sony HD video camera but couldn't imagine carrying this around while camping and hiking on Salt Spring Island in BC.Ironically, the photo associated with this AudioBoo recording was done with my iPhone 3G as the recording was made from the iPhone and AudioBoo allows attaching a photo from the iPhone when posting.

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